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" I'm very black and white about what I like or don't like, and I've always been that way. "
Ryan Murphy
Always
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Black And White
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" When I was growing up my favorite show was 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', and I loved all the stuff that Norman Lear did. "
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" I love Sarah Jessica Parker; I've worked with her. I think she's amazing... She's a great producer and has a great business acumen. "
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" Yeah, at home it's all moonbeams and puppy-dog tails, so I guess I do have a darker side - and I like writing about it. "
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" One thing I always do is just tell actors that I'm as afraid as they are, because I can sense that, and I feel it, too. "
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" You know, I'm very particular about my sheets. They have to be one hundred percent cotton, with a high thread count. Only cotton. No flannel. "
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" I do work with a lot of women in my company, and I write a lot of roles for women over 40. I think, in 'Feud' alone, we have 15 roles for women over 40, which I'm very proud about. "
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" I'd never had a mentor in Hollywood. Men have always been in control of the business, and they usually mentor people who are like them - but two inches shorter. "
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" I think the great thing about a television set is that it can be turned on and off, and you don't have to watch it if you think it's going to be something that you're not going to like or learn from. "
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" Joan Crawford and Bette Davis are larger than life. They just are. They sucked all the oxygen out of a room: they're icons; they loom large in our imaginations. But the truth of the matter is both women were diminutive. "
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" I'll ask the writers' room who they voted for Emmy awards, but I'll never ask who they voted for president. "
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" I came of age during AIDS and the terror of that and the sadness and the death and the overwhelming despair. "
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" I'm passionate about actors, and I'm passionate about showing actors in different lights. "
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" I remember I always felt much more safe standing up on a chair and singing in front of my mother than I was in front of my father! "
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" I've always felt I've related to women deeply because of being gay and feeling like there was always somebody trying to oppress me, to keep me down, to put me in my place. "
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" All the things I have done at one point or another have fallen out of fashion, and there's nothing better than trying to bring something back to life. "
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" I was an altar boy, with a very strict father. And movies were always my escape. "
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" I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk. "
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" As a showrunner, you can never be a 'maybe.' When I do movies, there is a lot of, 'Maybe' and, 'Let's investigate that.' But for TV, it has to be yes or no. "
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TV
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Maybe
" I actually think actors both are drawn to playing real-life historical people and are terrified. "
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" When I got my overall deal at Fox, I got amazing bosses in John Landgraf and Dana Walden and Peter Rice. For the first time ever, they said, 'Don't change who you are; be who you are. And write something you want to watch.' That thing was 'Glee,' and it took off from there. "
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" I was very much raised by my grandmother, who actually was Bette Davis - looked like her, acted like her, talked like her. Probably, it was just out of my love and affection for my grandmother that I was interested in Bette. "
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" I would much rather have watched Jill Clayburgh in 'An Unmarried Woman' than 'Star Wars.' Even though I saw that movie when I was 11, I related emotionally to being left and thrown in a trash can on the side of the road. Her damage - I got it. I didn't understand Han Solo at all. "
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" I don't think there's ever a winner in a feud. It's about emotional pain and an inability to conquer the pain. "
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" I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day. "
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" I had a very rocky, difficult, emotional childhood with my parents. "
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" Just because you have a baby on your hip - or one on the way or two at home - doesn't mean you can't go after your dreams. "
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